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When Megan Went Away is a 1979 children's picture book written by Jane Severance and illustrated by Tea Schook. It is the first picture book to include any LGBT characters, and specifically the first to feature lesbian characters, a distinction sometimes erroneously bestowed upon Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies (1989).
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Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [181] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 [1] and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. [2] His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.
The Other Side is a children's picture book written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis, published in 2001 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 2012, the book was adapted into a film by Weston Woods Studios, Inc., narrated by the author's daughter, Toshi Widoff-Woodson.
Wilson's published works include three series and two standalone novels for young adults, as well as children's picture books and a textbook. Wilson has written that his fiction is characterized by its creative allusions to classic literature.